Quantifying bias in psychological and physical health in the UK Biobank imaging sub-sample.

ABSTRACT: UK Biobank is a prospective cohort study of around half-a-million general population participants, recruited between 2006 and 2010, with baseline studies at recruitment and multiple assessments since. From 2014 to date, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been pursued in a participant sub-sample, with the aim to scan around n = 100k. This sub-sample is studied widely and therefore understanding its relative characteristics is important for future reports. We aimed to quantify psychological and physical health in the UK Biobank imaging sub-sample, compared with the rest of the cohort. We used t-tests and χ² for continuous/categorical variables, respectively, to estimate average differences on a range of cognitive, mental and physical health phenotypes. We contraste

SUBMITTER: Lyall DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9150072 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature